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    Gérard de Nerval (French: [ʒeʁaʁ də nɛʁval]; 22 May 1808 – 26 January 1855), the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie,...
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    produced several pieces at the Paris theatres, and also collaborated with Gérard de Nerval in adaptations from Shakespeare and in other plays. A friend of Offenbach...
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  • Sylvie (novel) (category Works by Gérard de Nerval)
    Sylvie (1853) is a novella by French Romanticist Gérard de Nerval. It was first published in the periodical La Revue des Deux Mondes in 1853 and as a book...
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    currency and bread is the concept of smallness. In 1852, French poet Gérard de Nerval extolled the pistolet roll of Brussels in his writing. Today, however...
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  • Desbordes-Valmore, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Victor Hugo, Aloysius Bertrand, Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Charles Baudelaire...
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    included Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Baudelaire, Gérard de Nerval and Honoré de Balzac. The Club was started as a research experiment. Unknown...
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  • striking but have lost their force through overuse. The French poet Gérard de Nerval once said, "The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet,...
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    Auguste Maquet (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Théophile Gautier and Gérard de Nerval. Through Nerval, he became acquainted with the already famous Dumas in 1838. Gérard de Nerval introduced Maquet to...
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    French Romantic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant Théophile Gautier, whose prolific...
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  • His favourite Western travelogue writers play a similar role like Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier and Gustave Flaubert. The book is illustrated by...
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  • 'hard/strong/brave'). The English cognate of Gérard is Gerard. Gérard Adanhoumé (born 1986), Beninese footballer Gérard Araud (born 1953), Permanent Representative...
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    While at school, Gautier befriended Gérard de Nerval and the two became lifelong friends. It is through Nerval that Gautier was introduced to Victor...
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  • Entertainment, a game developer, Munich, Germany The Chimeras, 1854 sonnets by Gérard de Nerval Chimaira, a 2001 novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi Chimera (Barth novel)...
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  • Foundation" by Samuel Sebastian Wesley "Aurélia", an 1855 novella by Gérard de Nerval "Aurelia", a 1953 single by The Pelicans "Aurelia", a track from the...
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    Henry Boguet's Discours exécrable de sorciers in 1590. In 1832 Gérard de Nerval wrote the short story "La main de gloire, histoire macaronique" ("The...
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  • Anti-Oedipus (category Les Éditions de Minuit books)
    Arthur Rimbaud, Daniel Paul Schreber, Adolf Wölfli, Vaslav Nijinsky, Gérard de Nerval and J. M. W. Turner. Thus, given the richness and diversity of the...
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    presenting his religious views. His teachings were later analyzed by Gérard de Nerval in Les Illuminés (1852). Admiring ancient Greece and ancient Rome,...
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  • The Chimeras (category Works by Gérard de Nerval)
    (French: Les Chimères) is a sequence of sonnets by the French writer Gérard de Nerval, made up of eight individual poems and a total of twelve sonnets. The...
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    He fell in with the Parisian bohemian group of Gérard de Nerval, Charles Baudelaire, and Théodore de Banville. His friends picked a nickname for him...
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  • dictionary. Sylvie may refer to: Sylvie (novel), an 1853 novel by Gérard de Nerval Sylvie (actress) (1883–1970), French actress Sylvie (band), a Canadian...
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    nineteenth century translations and stage productions, most notably Gérard de Nerval and Joseph Méry's highly romanticised French adaptation titled Le Chariot...
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    and poet. He was born and died in Paris. He, Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval and Arsène Houssaye formed the "bohème du Doyenné". He first exhibited...
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    Pirates de la Savanne and was at the peak of her success. With Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, Gérard de Nerval, Eugène Delacroix and Honoré de Balzac...
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    Delphica (category Works by Gérard de Nerval)
    "Delphica" (French: Delfica) is a poem by the French writer Gérard de Nerval, first published in 1845 and later included in The Chimeras, a sequence of...
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    Queen of Sheba (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Christopher; Doctor Faustus and other plays: Oxford World Classics, p. 155. Gérard de Nerval. Journey to the Orient, III.3.1–12. Trans. Conrad Elphinston. Antipodes...
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  • His father was from Poland and his mother from Tunisia. He attended Gérard de Nerval High School, Luzarches (Val-d'Oise). He then enrolled at the university...
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  • Monde dramatique (category Gérard de Nerval)
    Paris, France, from May 1835 to September 1841. It was founded by Gérard de Nerval and Anatole Bouchardy. The short-lived magazine was "overly ambitious...
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    Corbière, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Gérard de Nerval, and "Pauvre Lelian" ("Poor Lelian", an anagram of Paul Verlaine's...
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    Posthumous Poems by Mary Shelley in 1824. In 1828, at the age of twenty, Gérard de Nerval published a French translation of Goethe's Faust. In 1850, Anna Swanwick...
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    Reconstructionist Roman religion (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    presenting his religious views. His teachings were later analyzed by Gérard de Nerval in Les Illuminés (1852). Admiring ancient Greece and ancient Rome,...
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